SLW 9 weeks - pullet / cockerel?

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Here are the boys, it's hard to really capture how their feathers look on the camera. You can kind of see how their feathers pull tighter around their body right in front of their tail where Base the pullet, and Cappy the unknown have just a big poof between their body and tail.

 

[Tookie]

Here are the boys, it's hard to really capture how their feathers look on the camera. You can kind of see how their feathers pull tighter around their body right in front of their tail where Base the pullet, and Cappy the unknown have just a big poof between their body and tail.

I can see that...

 

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I can see that...

The wait is continuing! I'll try to wait a few more weeks and post an update. The problem is that a few days feels like a few weeks

 

[Tookie]

The wait is continuing! I'll try to wait a few more weeks and post an update. The problem is that a few days feels like a few weeks

We need some Silkie experts to take a look, and some new eyes, haha.

 

[HorseGirlAbby]

My eyes aren’t exactly new but based off the photos a week ago I say cockerel, and based off the newest photos I say pullet I’m going to go with cockerel, but that’s subject to change.

 

[2ndTink]

My eyes aren’t exactly new but based off the photos a week ago I say cockerel, and based off the newest photos I say pullet I’m going to go with cockerel, but that’s subject to change.

Perfect! Lol

 

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I didn't get updated photos last night (distracted by the silkie pullet running around with a dead mouse) but my husband said he saw Cappy Llama, the silkie in gender question, squat when the rooster went up to the fence next to it. It is 17 weeks old, no crowing, no big changes in the feathers, comb, or wattles. Would squatting indicate it is for sure a pullet? Or could a late blooming, bottom ranking cockerel squat to show submission?

 

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I didn't get updated photos last night (distracted by the silkie pullet running around with a dead mouse) but my husband said he saw Cappy Llama, the silkie in gender question, squat when the rooster went up to the fence next to it. It is 17 weeks old, no crowing, no big changes in the feathers, comb, or wattles. Would squatting indicate it is for sure a pullet? Or could a late blooming, bottom ranking cockerel squat to show submission?

I say that probably means it's a pullet, not sure if a cockerel would do that.

 

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I say that probably means it's a pullet, not sure if a cockerel would do that.

Ok, that sounds pretty hopeful then! I'll hopefully get some good photos tonight so you can then tell me it really looks like a cockerel

 

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So, I'm still confused, because Cappy Llama is totally developing a comb. Not the same as the for sure cockerels, but a comb none the less. It still has female feathering except for the more male poof.

Help!